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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Attention
Criterion-Referenced Test
Digraph
Synthetic Instruction
2. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Letter naming Chart
Towre
Latin layer of language
Criterion referenced tests
3. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Vr
Chall's Stage 1
Orthography
Keith Stanovich
4. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Reliability
Vowel Digraph
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
5. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Latin layer of language
Syntax
Texas Education Code 28.06
Social language
6. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Syllable
Towre
Oral Language
WIATII
7. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Phonological Awareness
IMSLEC
Attention
Social language
8. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Direct Instruction
Anna Gillingham
CTOPP
Quadrigraph
9. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Diphthong
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
WIATII
Chall's Stage 0
10. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Chall's Stage 0
GORT
Direct Instruction
Auditory Processing
11. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Chall's Stage 0
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Auditory Processing
Cedilla
12. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Components of Reading Instruction
GORT
Closed Syllable
Modern English
13. Multisensory Structured Language Education
MSLE
Standard deviation
Syntax
Age equivalent
14. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
Expressive language
Phonics approach
Ability
Cognition
15. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
Percentile
IDEA
Reading Comprehension Support
WIATII
16. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Social language
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
NICHD
V-e
17. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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18. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Macron
Profile
Base Word
Grade equivalents
19. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Affix
Middle English
IMSLEC
CTOPP
20. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Grade equivalents
Auditory Learners
Syntax
Phonological Awareness
21. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
Greek layer of language
Standard score
V-e
Grapheme
22. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies
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23. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Social language
Closed Syllable
Vowel
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
24. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness
James Hinshelwood
Comprehension
Progress Monitoring
Phoneme
25. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Texas Education Code 28.06
RTI
Pre-English
IMSLEC
26. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Chall's Stage 5
ALTA
Modification
27. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Progress Monitoring
Frank Smith
Phonological Awareness
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
28. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Phonology
Top-down Reading Approach
Social language
James Hinshelwood
29. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
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30. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu
ALTA
Criterion referenced tests
Standardized test
V >
31. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Chall's Stage 0
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Breve
Affix
32. Closed syllable
VC
Base Word
Old English
Synthetic Instruction
33. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Reading Comprehension Support
Kinesthetic
Standardized test
Phonemic Awareness
34. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
IMSLEC
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Reading Comprehension Support
35. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Direct Instruction
Phonics
RTI
Synthetic Instruction
36. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
V >
Chall's Stage 1
Percentile/ percentile rank
Components of Reading Instruction
37. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Six basic types of syllables
Trigraph
Whole Language
Stanine Scores
38. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
IMSLEC
Universal Screening
Chall's Stage 2
SBOE
39. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.
Linguistic Method
Analytic
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Diagnostic tests
40. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Consonant
Components of Reading Instruction
Phonics approach
Oral Language
41. Multisensory Structured Language
Chall's Stage 1
Oral Language
MSL
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
42. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat
Stanine Scores
Old English
Dyslexia
Cognitive Assessment
43. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Tactile
Diagnostic tests
Battery
Diphthong
44. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Direct Instruction
Samuel T. Orton
Sight Words
Affix
45. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Norm-referenced tests
Derived Score
Adolf Kusmaul
46. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
Academic Achievement Tests
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Chall's Stage 4
Norm-Referenced Test
47. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
Diagnostic Teaching
Multisensory
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
NICHD
48. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress
Grade equivalents
Middle English
Phonemic Awareness
Simultaneous teaching
49. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
James Hinshelwood
Texas Education Code 28.06
Standard deviation
Phonemic/ decodable words
50. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Criterion-Referenced Test
Criterion referenced tests
Expressive language
Matthew Effect